Re: Problem with pcmcia-modules and kernel-image

[Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>]

Le Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 05:07:33PM -0500, Brian Mays écrivait:
> > actually the postint does call depmod -a only if the current kernel is
> > the one for which the modules have been compiled, shouldn't it call
> > depmod -a <kernel-version> instead ?
> 
> Well, that only works if the appropriate kernel version has already
> been installed, something that the pcmcia-modules package cannot
> ensure.

Sure ? Actually pcmcia-modules-2.2.18 depends on kernel-image-2.2.18... so
when the pcmcia-modules postinst is called you can be sure that that the
kernel-image is at least unpacked (but it may not be configured, to ensure
that you'd need a pre-depends)... 

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